From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jun 30 12:42:23 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id MAA10124 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 30 Jun 1996 12:42:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: from jbrann.dialup.access.net (jbrann.dialup.access.net [166.84.193.118]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id MAA10115 for ; Sun, 30 Jun 1996 12:42:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from jbrann@localhost) by jbrann.dialup.access.net (8.6.12/8.6.12) id PAA09326; Sun, 30 Jun 1996 15:47:08 -0400 Message-Id: <199606301947.PAA09326@jbrann.dialup.access.net> Subject: Re: windows NT and Freebsd on same pc To: mnewton@io.org (Malcolm Newton) Date: Sun, 30 Jun 1996 15:47:08 -0400 (EDT) Cc: questions@freebsd.org (freeq) In-Reply-To: <199606292327.TAA01003@io.org> from Malcolm Newton at "Jun 29, 96 07:27:47 pm" From: John Brann Reply-To: John Brann Organisation: Not while I'm at home X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL13 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Malcolm Newton wrote... > On a new pc I need NT and freebsd on the same drive. NT to test out commerce > server stuff etc and freebsd as a fast switch backup to our server. > on a 1.6gb drive I would assume that I should put nt first (1gb) and freebsd > in the last 600Mbyte. I guess I can run fdisk from nt to switcth active > partitions. > Any better ideas ?????? > > ta muchly > Malcolm Newton President > mnewton@io.org http://www.io.org/~mnewton > VisiSoft Corp 2155 Dunwin Dr unit 6, Mississauga,Ont. Can L5L 4M1 > (905) 607 6263 (905) 607 6122 fax > Install the Boot manager which comes with FreeBSD. It works fine with NT. You'll be prompted during installation to decide whether you want it or not. Remember that the FreeBSD kernel has to be below cylinder 1024 when partitioning... John -- Beavis and Butt-Head; Vladimir and Estragon for the '90s. finger jbrann@panix.com for pgp public key